In computing, the Red Hat Virtual Machine Manager, also known as virt-manager, is a desktop-driven virtual machine manager with which users can manage virtual machines (VMs).
Virtual Machine Manager allows users to:
create, edit, start and stop VMs
view and control of each VM's console
see performance and utilization statistics for each VM
view all running VMs and hosts, and their live performance or resource utilization statistics.
use KVM, Xen or QEMU virtual machines, running either locally or remotely.
use LXC containers
Support for FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor has been included since 2014, though it remains disabled by default.
Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in:
Arch Linux
Debian (since lenny)
Fedora (since version 6)
Frugalware
Gentoo
Mandriva Linux (since release 2007.1)
NetBSD (via pkgsrc)
OpenBSD (via Ports collection)
openSUSE (since release 10.3)
TrueOS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (since version 5)
Ubuntu (version 8.04 and above)
Oracle Linux
Scientific Linux
While the Virtual Machine Manager project itself lacks documentation, there are third parties providing relevant information, e.g.:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization 6 documentation:
Virtualization Getting Started Guide
Virtualization Host Configuration and Guest Installation Guide
Virtualization Administration Guide
Fedora 18 documentation:
Virtualization Getting Started Guide
Virtualization Administration Guide
Virtualization Security Guide
Ubuntu official documentation:
KVM/VirtManager
Libvirt documentation:
Documentation: index
Documentation: Storage pools
Documentation: Network management architecture
Wiki: Virtual networking
